Tagged: bitcoin

July 27, 2021 @ 12:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Blockstream, which claims to be the global leader in Bitcoin and blockchain tech, notes that they’re pleased to introduce Greenlight, which is their latest Lightning Network (LN) service. Blockstream, which aims to make financial markets more efficient by reducing reliance on trust… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin is once again surging after tumbling below $30,000 last week. Today, Bitcoin is bouncing around $40,000 – a pretty dramatic shift in price. At the beginning of 2021, Bitcoin traded at just shy of $30,000 so last week BTC retraced all of the years’… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

A recent survey indicates that a whopping 43% of Singaporeans own crypto and 46% plan on purchasing digital assets within the next 12 months. The study conducted by the Independent Reserve Cryptocurrency Index (ICRI) polled 1000 individuals in 2021. This is the first time ICRI… Read More

July 26, 2021 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As Bitcoin prices rally higher, more than 2.1 million $BTC have now “returned to profitability based on their realized price,” according to an update from Glassnode. According to Glassnode, this indicates that 11.2% of the circulating Bitcoin supply has an “on-chain cost basis between $29k… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Azimut Group, with Azimut Investments S.A., is reportedly the first asset management firm based in Luxembourg to acquire authorization to manage digital assets strategies. With this further evidence of the Group’s innovation capabilities, Azimut confirmed that it will be introducing the AZ RAIF Digital Asset… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 3:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin will return to its previous highs before 2022 thanks in part to more muted support from notable advocates like Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey and Cathie Wood, deVere Group CEO Nigel Green believes. At the July 20 B Word Conference, Musk, Dorsey, and Wood reportedly… Read More

July 22, 2021 @ 12:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

More than half of crypto investors expect the cryptocurrency trading boom still has legs, research from blockchain-based derivatives trading platform CloseCross shows. The company surveyed global investors responsible for approximately $380 billion of assets under management. Of the 57 per cent who believe the level… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 9:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

More than half (54 percent) of panelists in Finder’s latest Bitcoin Price Predictions Report believe Bitcoin will overtake fiat as the dominant form of global finance by 2050, with 29 percent believing it will happen by 2035. While Bitcoin’s value is predicted to drop to… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Upgrade, an online lender, has announced the launch of the Upgrade Bitcoin Rewards Card a new version of Upgrade Card featuring Bitcoin rewards. Under Upgrade’s new program, users may earn unlimited 1.5% Bitcoin rewards on every purchase as they make payments.  The custody and trading… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 3:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech firm Modulr reveals that they’ve managed to secure their Visa Ready certification, which supports customers in selecting the “best of breed payment solutions” that meet Visa’s international standards. As noted in an update from Modulr, the extended collaboration with Visa will help with… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 12:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at BitOoda, a global digital asset financial technology & services platform providing next-gen risk management solutions, best-execution brokerage & expert market analysis, has released their Weekly Hash Report, dated July, 19 2021. As noted in the report from BitOoda, hashrate or the amount of… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 4:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Don’t say she didn’t warn you, GlobalBlock sales trader Alexandra Clark said in her latest research notes. As Bitcoin continued plummeting, contributing to the downward spiral was the lacklustre performance of crypto stock Galaxy Digital Holdings, which shed 63 percent of its value from its… Read More

July 20, 2021 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (July 19) that for the week ending July 19,… Read More

July 17, 2021 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at YIELD App, the developers of a fast-growing wealth management platform for digital assets, has published their second progress report – which reveals that users for their app have doubled while assets have increased by 3x since the last update. The YIELD App… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Square (NYSE:SQ) founder and CEO Jack Dorsey revealed a new business line for the company focused on Bitcoin. Dorsey announced the “open developer platform” via his other company Twitter. Dorsey said the goal is to make it easy to create “non-custodial, permissionless, and decentralized financial… Read More

July 14, 2021 @ 1:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Monday (July 12) that for the week ending July 12,… Read More

July 13, 2021 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The research analysts at BitOoda have published their Weekly Hash report, dated July 12, 2021. The report reveals that cryptocurrency miner economics have improved despite the range-bound Bitcoin (BTC) price. The BitOoda team writes in a blog post that China’s Bitcoin mining ban “continues to… Read More

July 12, 2021 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YIELD App, the decentralized finance (DeFi) wealth management platform that’s focused on combining the best of traditional and digital finance, is pleased to confirm that they have launched a Bitcoin Fund, enabling users to earn “high-interest” returns on the world’s leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC). As… Read More

July 12, 2021 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Austria-based Blockpit, a provider of legally compliant and audited tax reports for the treatment of digital assets, reveals that it has acquired $10 million in capital as part of Series A round. Blockpit’s investment round has reportedly been led by MiddleGame Ventures (MGV) along with… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Blockchain, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), which is one of the leading Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining firms in the US, reveals its June production and operations updates, including its “unaudited” BTC production for the month of June 2021 and its “miner deployment status.” Last month, Riot produced… Read More